ReMix: Mega Man 3 'crystal potion'
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- Game: Mega Man 3 (Capcom, 1990, NES)
- ReMixer(s): posu yan
- Composer(s): Yasuaki Fujita
- Song(s): 'Geminiman Stage'
- Posted: 2006-03-04, evaluated by djpretzel
So, tomorrow's Oscar night (although the often more entertaining and definitely more expletive-laden Independent Spirit Awards were today), and as always, I've got my favorites, though nothing this year is as important to me as Million Dollar Baby was last year. The recent buzz around Crash seems ill-placed - excellent film, very brave and honest... up until the last ten minutes, where it falls to cinematic pieces, complete with musical montage, "snow in L.A.!!1!", and amazingly-coincidental-connections contrivance theater. Brokeback seems more timeless and thus more likely to resonate with (open-minded) viewers decades from now, so I'll take it for Best Picture and Director (though Lee still has far more work ahead of him to make up for the green stink of Hulk). The Best Actor nominees continue to make the fairer sex pale in comparison - Hoffman, Ledger, and Phoenix (my favorite, but apparently a longshot) all gave amazing performances. For Actress, from what I've seen, I'll go with supposed lock Witherspoon, but I still need to catch Transamerica. I was "constantly" bored by Gardener, so I hope Williams brings in one more for BB and favorite Weisz is denied. Williams' Geisha score was a little schizophrenic, so I'll take the relative simplicity of Brokeback once again. Ditto with adapted screenplay; I'd like longshot The Squid and the Whale to take original though - Noah Baumbach's the shit.
Wait a second... this is a site about video game remixes and what not, and most people probably don't give a rat's tuckus what I think about this year's Oscar nominations. Ahh, well... damage done. Regardless of who wins what tomorrow, one of the most consistently amazing and increasingly prolific ReMixers of the last dozen months has been po! - along with co-conspirator Joshua Morse, he's been turning out some tight, inventive, hybrid electro-acoustic jams. This Mega Man 3 piece is no exception; to be frank, if you've enjoyed the last several mixes po's written or co-written, you shouldn't need any further convincing. po played guitar, bass, and violin for this take on the Gemini Man theme, and none of those three parts are particularly simple - he's a bonafide multi-instrumentalist, let there be no doubt. The violin solo at 1'42", where a funky clav panned right joins the EP, is definitely a highlight, and at 3'23" total, is the perfect way of rounding out the relatively brief mix and incorporating a new element to keep things fresh. The overall feel is a little warmer and funkier than past stuffs, but largely in a similar vein. Hopefully Mr. Yan will forgive my Oscar-tangent intro to his mix's writeup if I also add that his violin playing has really been bringing something different to the scene, and continues to add an ineffable quality to his already excellent compositions.
Discussion: Latest 15 comments/reviews; view the - windkirby on August 25, 2009
KogeJoe;224673 wrote: Who's the violinist in here? Damn.
Beautiful remix. Only bone of contention I may have is the abrubt ending. Some sort of indication that the piece is about to end would have been nice... but other than that, great work.
Wow, a positive review from KogeJoe. That's when you know you've got something here.
Seriously though, I've been going through all your stuff, and man this just blew me away. It's not even fair how well you play violin, guitar, and who-knows-what-else, but ReMixes like this make me really glad you do. A keeper fo xo.
- Dhsu on August 25, 2009
The star here is the violin work that milks out gobs of sweet sweet melodic interpretation.
Woah, listen to me. 'Gobs of'? Who am I, djpretzel? Hope he doesn't have a tradmark on that.
Very coooool mix, and a nice change of pace from the average OCR fare.
- Marmiduke on January 10, 2009
Also, the violin work here is unimaginably good.
Very smooth and highly recommended.
- 42 on December 18, 2008
Beautiful remix. Only bone of contention I may have is the abrubt ending. Some sort of indication that the piece is about to end would have been nice... but other than that, great work.
- KogeJoe on January 27, 2007
I am currently hearing this on the oc.ormgas.org radio station and I'm loving every second of it. Just wanted to let you know that this sounds great! :):):)
- Nario on September 2, 2006
Kurokun1293 wrote: Quite honestly, I hated the G-man's theme.
You have got to be kidding me...just one of the great songs in one of the best NES games ever.
Not much of a jazz person and some stuff is more off-tune than it has to be...once you get into the violin stuff this becomes solid.
- DukeNukem007 on May 29, 2006
- Beat, the Sonic Superhero on May 7, 2006
- Kurokun1293 on April 18, 2006
Ventrex wrote: PS, I could have sworn Posu did an Earthbound mix, but I can find it neither on OCR nor my hard drive, VGmix is down, and I only ever get irritated by small things I think I vaguely remember like that.
http://earthbound.joecam.net/
- myf on April 14, 2006
- Nobleheart on April 14, 2006
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